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The main benefits of an articulated bus over the double-decker bus are rapid simultaneous boarding and disembarkation through more and larger doors, increased stability arising from a lower centre of gravity, smaller frontal area giving less air resistance than double decker buses thus better fuel efficiency, often a smaller turning radius ...
Common bi-articulated buses resemble rail vehicles in design. They often have elevated train-type doors instead of traditional bus doors to use dedicated stations. Payment is typically made at a bus station using a fare gate rather than on the bus. Compared to using multiple smaller buses on a route, challenges using a bi-articulated bus include:
A multi-axle bus is a bus or coach that has more than the conventional two axles (known as a twin-axle bus), usually three (known as a tri-axle bus), or more rarely, four (known as a quad-axle bus). Extra axles are usually added for legal axle load restriction reasons, or to accommodate different vehicle designs such as articulation, or rarely ...
[2] [3] [11] ART is specifically referred to as a train or rapid transit as Digital-rail Rapid Transit and electric road by its manufacturer, however the public describes it as a bus or trolleybus and bus rapid transit. Its exterior is composed of individual fixed sections joined by articulated gangways, resembling a rubber-tyred tram and ...
A less common variant of the articulated bus is the bi-articulated bus, where the vehicle has two trailer sections rather than one. Such vehicles have a capacity of around 200 people, and a length of about 25 m (82 ft); as such, they are used almost exclusively on high-capacity, high-frequency arterial routes and on bus rapid transit services.
The NABI SFW is a line of standard (high)-floor transit buses available in 40-foot rigid (NABI 416) and 60-foot articulated (NABI 436) nominal lengths, manufactured by the Ikarus USA joint venture, then by American Ikarus and North American Bus Industries (NABI) between 1989 and 2013.
The Green Bus Fund is a fund which is supporting bus companies and local authorities in the UK to help them buy new electric buses. [38] London Buses, London. This is the largest fleet in the UK, with around 2,300 vehicles in use. [39] National Express West Midlands, Birmingham – 18 currently, [40] 21 more planned [41]
Back then it was announced that the bus would head to Warsaw for three-year test runs for operator MZA Warszawa. [12] In August 2017, the first three articulated electric buses drove out onto Cracow streets for a preview before the official première. It is worth noting that one of these buses was the 15,000th vehicle made by the manufacturer. [13]